CBS News - What you might not know, because it doesn't play 30 times a day on the cable news channels, is what was happening in the rest of the room. You don't see the visual and you don't hear the audio. The television crews recording the event plug into an audio source picking up Dean's microphone, not the sound of the room. The cameras focus in to a tight shot of the candidate, not the rest of the room.
What you are not hearing is a room with thousands of people screaming and cheering.
What you are not seeing are hundreds upon hundreds of American flags waving.
What you are not hearing are members of the audience shouting out state names urging Dean to list more.
What you are not seeing is the way Dean's supporters were lifted out of their slump by the speech.
In a nutshell, you are not seeing that Dean's speech fit the tone of the room.
el - did my firing about 80 different emails to the media have something to do with them now covering this story?
Yes, a couple to CBS. I don't know, probably not as the reporter is not at CBS but in New Hampshire. But someone has to read the emails and perhaps look at the web posted videos and decide there might be a story there.
I may not have caused this second look but this is the story I wanted written. Some of the wording matches mine, but how many ways are there to describe a rally.
It does go on with their story -
Dean was throwing a bone to his supporters. He was lifting them up after a devastating and unexpected loss. This is not the campaign's spin - it is their flaw.
Dean's Iowa speech demonstrates in one clear cut example how unprepared his campaign was for the transition from the early days of fluffy feature stories to the days of microscopic scrutiny and unrelenting news cycle repetition. And now they're paying the price.
So some feedback, who reads emails to the media?